Improvement in apparatus for capsuling bottles



J. PATERSON.

Apparatus for Capsuling Bottles. N0.14.8,977. Patented March 24.1874.

JAMES PATERSON, OF EYTONSTONE, ENGLAND.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARTUS FOR CAPSULING BOTTLES, 8:0.

pecification 'formin g part of Letters Patent No. 12185977, dated March24, 1874; application filed March 9,1874.

Casa Ba To all whom it may conccr'n: O Be it'known that I, JAMEsPATERON, of Leytoiistone, in the county of Essex, England, have inventedcertain Improvements in Machines for Gapsuling Bottles and otherVessels, of which the following is a specification:

My invention relates to improvements in the mode of applyin g metalliccapsules to bottles for which Letters Patent No. 121,407 were granted toTilliam Betts, as my assignee., on the 28th day of November, 1871; andthe object of my invention is to fix the capsules more expeditiously andeffectually than heretofore, by Operating the clastic diaphragmdescribed in the said patent by simple mechanical appliances, instead ofby the pressure of a surrounding fiuid.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure l is a front elevation of myimproved capsuling apparatus with the cover-plate removed, and Fig. 2 isa sectional elevation of the same.

, The elastic tubular diaphragm or collar a is situated at theintersection of four or other suitable number of radial grooves formedin the upper circular portion of the standard B of the apparatus, and issurrounded, held in place, and pressed upon by pressing-pieces Z), eachadapted to one of the radial grooves in the standard. Eachpressing-piece bis acted on by a sliding dog, c, also adapted to thegrooved portion of the standard; and the whole of said dogs can beforced inward simultaneously by the action of cam-like inclines d on theinterior of a ring, c, which will cause the pieces b to compress thecollar a around the neck of a bottle or other Vessel, in order to fix ametallic capsule to the same. The ring eis adapted to the exterior ofthe circular portion of the standard7 and can be part-ially turned inone direction by a lever, f, segment h, and chain g, attached to thesaid segment and ring, the re- Versemoyementof the ring being effectedwhen the lever is released by the action of a rubber or other spring,

The elastc collar a may be made more or less conical, as shown in Fig.2, so that it may adapt itself to a tapered bottle-neck; and, in orderto prevent the breaking of the latter by any iuequality of pressure, andto permit an equal and uniform adjustment of the elastic collar, I makeeach of the pressing-pieces b self-accommodating to the angle of thebottleneck or other Vessel against which it is pressed. by forming atransverse rib, 7a, on the face of each of the dogs c, upon which thesaid pressing-pieces can oscillate freely.

The same result might be attained by forming the rib or bearing-point onthe back of the pressing-piece, instead of upon the dog, but this isimmaterial.

The position of the bottle-neck within the elastic collar is determinedby an adjust-able screw-stop,l, with whichthe cork or end of thebottle-neck is brought in contact when thelatter is inserted into thesaid elastic collar through the aperturem in the center of the frontplate a.

I claim as my inventionfl l. In a machine for applyin g capsules tolbottles or other vessels, the combination, substantially as described,of the elastic collar or diaphragm d, the oscillating pressing-piecesI), and the sliding dogs c, by which the said pressing-pieces areoperated.

2. The combination of the elastic collar or diaphragm a, thepressing-pieces b, the sliding dogs c, and the cam-ringe, allsubstantially as and for the purpose specified. y

In witness whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

J AM ES PATERSON.

Wit-nesses:

OnAs. MILLs,

47 Lincohs Inn Fields, London. J oHN JAMEs,

47 Lncolds Inn Fields, London,

